Washdrainer.



M. LARSEN.

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APPLICATION FILED MAY 13. l9l5. 1,243,841. Patented 0613. 23,1917.

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WASHDRAINER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 23, 1917.

Application filed May 13, 1915. Serial No. 27,814.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Manna Lnnsnn, a citizen of the United States,residing at Jamaica, in the county of Queens and State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful improvements in iVashdrainers, of whichthe following is a specification.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in laundryapparatus, and pertains more particularly to devices for draining wetclothes.

The primary object of the invention is to provide a device of thischaracter which especially adapted for use with a clothes boiler of theordinary type.

A further object of the invention is to provide a device of thischaracter which can be readily transported when full of clothes.

Referring to the drawings;

Figure 1 is a View in elevation of a clothes boiler with the clothesdrainer in position thereon;

Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the drainer;

Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the drainer; and

Fig. A is a front elevation thereof.

Referring to the drawings by reference character, 1 designates thebottom of the drainer, which is preferably formed of wire mesh, and hasa straight forward edge 2, parallel rearwardly extending side walls 8,and a curved rear wall A which latter connects the parallel side walls3.

Extending upwardly from the bottom 1 and conforming to the shape thereofis a vertically extending flange 5, said flange being secured to thebottom 1 by turning up a flange 6 on the edge thereof which is adaptedto receive the flange 5 and be secured thereto by rivets Or the like notherein shown. The flange 5 is provided with a plurality of openings 7for the purpose of permitting of water draining therethrough.

Extending downwardly into the interior of the vertical flange 5 is theupper portion 8 of the drainer, said upper portion consisting of anintegral outwardly flaring side and rear wall 9 the upper edge of whichis rolled over to provide a smooth upper edge 10.

As seen in Fig. A the front portion of the vertical flange 5 extendsupwardly into engagement with the front edges of the side walls 9 as at12, and is secured thereto by means of the vertically extending angleirons Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each,

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11 which are riveted thereto. As will be seen, the front walls of theangle irons 11 terminate at points flush with the top edges of theportions 12 of the flange 5.

The side walls 9 are provided on their outer faces with handles 13 whilethe verti cal flange 5 is provided with right angular brackets 1 1 whichare adapted to engage the upper edge of the boiler 15 and form means forsupporting thedevice. There are three of these right angular bracketsarranged one on each side of the flange 5 and one at the rear thereof.

In use the handles are grasped to lift the device, and it is placedinside of the upper portion of a boiler as shown in Fig. 1 with theright angular brackets 1 in engagement with the upper edge of theboiler, clothes which have been previously boiled in the boiler arelifted out of the same, and are placed upon the wire bottom 1 where thewater is permitted to drain back into the boiler.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new, and desire toprotect by Letters Patent is: e

A wash drainer comprising in combination with a wash boiler, aperforated sheet metal member conforming in shape to the contour of oneend of the boiler, a plurality of supporting members secured to theouter faceof the perforated sheet metal member and adapted to engage theupper edge of the boiler, a wire mesh bottom for the sheet metal memberand secured thereto by crimping the lower edge about a flange carried bythe mesh bottom, an outwardly flaring upper section rigidly secured tothe upper edge of the perforated sheet metal member, a perforated frontwall connecting the ends of the perforated sheet metal member, andhaving end portions extending above the perrofated sheet metal member,and angle bars connected to the perforated sheet metal member, theperforated front wall and the outwardly flaring upper section, saidangle bars serving to secure said perforated sheet metal member, saidfront wall, and said up per section in rigid relation.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

MARIE LARSEN.

Witnesses: 1

Anna: KORFITZEN, Penna ANnEnsnN.

by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

